Wednesday, May 27, 2015

The growth is slowing with about 40% of the world with full internet access at home. Nearly 3/4 of us have access from mobile phones, but only about 3 billion of that 5.2 billion number have smartphones. That's just a bit more than the 2.8 billion users who have full internet access.

and the US Dollar leads the web

11 of the 15 biggest internet companies are American. The other 4 are from China.

and Messaging Platforms are the Killer App.

Government, Healthcare, And Education Are Huge Opportunities

"The Internet has already transformed the consumer and business space, where entrepreneurs can build products that meet their needs or solve pain points. Larger, more regulated spaces that are less accessible or comprehensible to the average entrepreneur have seen less Internet-driven innovation, and are essentially sitting ducks for startups." - Tech Crunch Summary

A word of caution, you are responsible for securing your data

Lost devices, insider breaches, spyware all contribute to security breaches.

Still the workplace moves forward online, and becomes global

Service jobs are replacing goods producing jobs, with cognitive jobs growing the fastest. More people than ever work remotely with flexible hours. Consumers expect instant response, so businesses are open 24 hours. Which reminds me, I've got work to do. It's 9 AM somewhere!

Sunday, May 24, 2015

A special thanks goes to Speedment for sponsoring last week's Wednesday Morning Coffee at Breadtalk. Speedment is an open source Object Relational Mapper (ORM). An ORM makes it easy for Object oriented programmers and programs to persist objects to a traditional SQL database. Speedment is an accelerated ORM. So aside from simplifying the database mapping, Speedment speeds up query response times. It's also a graph database,so it specializes in large datasets, and excels with data where relationships between nodes are queried.

This little hare is Spire, the Speedment mascot. I've installed Speedment several times, and it's very effective for projects where there will be lot's of queries on your data, and where relationships are important. It's a honor to have a company that understands the importance of relationships sponsor our coffee.

Saturday, May 16, 2015

Webworking, (Làm việc mạng), is a group organized to encourage people in Ho Chi Minh City with careers in web technologies, and to support those who's careers need a boost or a change.

Our most popular event, Wednesday morning coffee is an informal OpenCoffee where ambitious young entrepreneurs, developers and investors mingle and learn from each other. We talk about the latest technologies, favorite Saigon coffee shops and how to build careers and businesses in the promising Vietnamese economy.

Now you can participate from afar by sponsoring a coffee session. $25 earns you the gratitude of that weeks attendees and gets your company or organization on the event page.